Archives for
February 2008

Private Equity Hub and VentureBeat are both reporting on the funding of an almost complete unknown Web 2.0 startup called PublicEarth. Very little is mentioned in the press releases on the wire about the company, and even less is revealed on the Publ...

Those people who are about to get sacked from Yahoo - around 1000 of them - probably won't care much what happens to the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. In fact, I bet they'll root for both companies to go down in flames. One of Yahoo folks who's getting the b...

Oh my, it's that stupid idea all over again. A new UK law in the making proposes that people who are caught (which probably assumes all users' online activity is constantly monitored - a worrying proposition all by itself) illegally sharing files via...

Taking a break from dodging Microsoft, Yahoo is doing some buying of their own, scooping up Maven Networks for $160 million. Maven is an online video platform provider, meaning versus a destination site like YouTube or Metacafe, they provide the tech...

Everyone is announcing search-related mobile partnerships this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Today, four huge players have "connected:" Nokia has announced its partnership with Google, while T-Mobile hooked up with Yahoo. For Nokia, thi...

Although the ghost of a possible Microsoft-Yahoo merger still lingers on, it's time to forget about it for a while because the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has proved that all parties involved have (seemingly) moved on and are doing business as...

The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. New Listings Project Manager / leading Fantasy Sports Company RotoHog.com – a rapidly expan...

New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites! ffwd Invites All beta users will have access to a full-featured version of the service and will be invited to giv... TypeRoom Invites Edit your own web...

In yesterday’s response to Yahoo, Microsoft wrote that the company “reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!’s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal.” Today, more ev...

ParkingHunter is a new service that lets you search for available parking spots in your area. It's a very simplistic site that probably won't help you much, and that's mainly because ParkingHunter is little more than a Google Maps mashup with craigsl...

When we hear the name Nielsen, we typically think of the boxes that are hooked up to people's television sets, recording stats on everything they watch. While Nielsen has been able to move somewhat seamlessly into the online world to measure video co...

There’s a mini-controversy brewing in the webmaster world today over a new feature in the latest beta of Google Toolbar. According to Seoker.com, when a user with the toolbar installed goes to a 404 page, they see a Google page with a pre-populated G...

Niche wikis are pretty rampant in this day and age, but in terms of their having large or even long-term effects on anything larger than themselves, it's pretty difficult to pawn much value from them, unless you're a rabid member. As Mark mentioned t...

ComicWonder, the user-generated audio jokes site we profiled in December, has raised $750,000 in funding. The financing round was lead by Phenomenelle Angel Fund, with participation from Wisconsin Investment Partners and Women Angels. As described pr...

Firefox is the browser of choice for myself, and a good portion of the Mashable readers out there, and it's partly due to the browser's ability to support a mini economy of handy add-ons, and other bells and whistles. There's nothing like a good cont...

If you used our 20+ Dating Sites For Geeks and Freaks back in August, then it's time for you to woo your significant other for Valentine's Day. We've gathered up some food recommendations, ideas for kids, suggestions for those of you in long term rel...

In correlation with the upcoming Politics Online Conference, I proudly announce MashMeet DC REMIX. Similar to the MashMeet NYC REMIX, this will be a twist on our MashMeet platform and will incorporate presentations, food and music all within a privat...

A handful of new cities have reportedly been added to the Google Street Views Maps, according to an unofficial Google Earth Blog. I hope you hid your faces, if you happen to live in Kansas City, Missouri, Juneau, Alaska, Boise, Salt Lake City, San An...

Several aspiring actors, producers and filmmakers have turned to the Internet in order to find content, people to work with, and channels of distribution. And even those that have had established careers in traditional Hollywood media have even taken...

We heard a rumor earlier today that iVillage had made significant staff reductions. Upon further investigation, a source close to the company confirms the layoffs, but tells us that they were much smaller than rumored, totaling 13 employees in all (a...

It's been just a couple of days after I posted my epiphany regarding FriendFeed. I've noticed that I've spent more and more time in the system, and it's starting to take the place of TechMeme and Digg, to a certain extent, for me. Whether it's a comm...

37 Signals Backpack tool, which creates an intranet for companies, has announced a couple of upcoming features in the past few days that are meant to overall improve the service. Multi-user support is one of the features that will soon be a part of t...

I've got to be honest. I've never thought much about my mobile phone voice mail service. Sure, I know it's there, and it works well enough. Once I started playing with the features on YouMail, though, I didn't know how sorely lacking my current servi...

We've seen a bit of peripheral activity going on around Firefox, including the Firefox Extend contest that just concluded today, with Shareaholic, Minimap and SamePlace taking the grand prizes for the browser add-ons they developed. Today, Firefox ha...

Over the weekend, Paul mentioned the current state of Eons, which seemed rather dismal (yet still enough to get an article in The New York Times, apparently to Paul's dismay). But even after a substantially painful round of layoffs and an increasingl...

If you're like us here at Mashable, you've got a ShareThis icon that happily accompanies all of your blog posts, and other forms of content. ShareThis is a handy and compact way to give readers and site visitors options for sharing your content with ...

The Under the Radar Business of Web Apps conference, to highlight 32 startups that have launched within the past year, will be occurring next month on March 20, on the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, CA. Under the Radar is the premier event to att...

Metacafe has recently made some significant changes to their compensation program this week, and as with any major compensation program changes, it hasn't come without some controversy within the community. The changes to the policy were interpreted ...

While the Great Escape lives on over at Yahoo, those that are still around are busy making mashups. What do you get when you mix a bunch of ActionScript apps together? Yahoo NewsGlobe. It's a mix of Top Stories News from Yahoo's RSS feed, Yahoo Maps,...

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